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Translation Quality Assessment
Malcolm Williams
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Paperback. Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, the author explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. He offers translators a new set of flexible and modular standards. Series: Perspectives on Translation. Num Pages: 210 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.
Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, Malcolm Williams explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through error analysis is inevitably based on an error count - an unsatisfactory means of establishing, and justifying, differences in quality that forces the evaluator to focus on subsentence elements rather than the key messages of the source text. Williams counters that a judgment of translation quality should be based primarily on the success with which the translator has rendered the reasoning, or argument structure. Six ... Read more
Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error analysis, Malcolm Williams explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through error analysis is inevitably based on an error count - an unsatisfactory means of establishing, and justifying, differences in quality that forces the evaluator to focus on subsentence elements rather than the key messages of the source text. Williams counters that a judgment of translation quality should be based primarily on the success with which the translator has rendered the reasoning, or argument structure. Six ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press Canada
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives on Translation
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776605845
SKU
V9780776605845
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